Luigi Toscano ha scritto: > On Wednesday 09 of March 2016 16:50:39 Sebastian Kügler wrote: >> On Wednesday, March 09, 2016 17:30:01 Luigi Toscano wrote: >>>> Let me cut right to the chase, do you want to maintain it? Does it need >>>> to >>>> be in Plasma? >>> >>> Yes, I can maintain it. In fact many features come from components I >>> already control. >>> >>>> You're right that Plasma devs don't seem to want it, I thought my >>>> initial >>>> email made that pretty clear. We do think that disconnected systems are >>>> rather a fringe case, and that our time and effort is better spent on >>>> other >>>> things. >>> >>> Then the question still holds: with a maintainer, does it have a place in >>> Plasma? I'm not talking about an hypothetical time and effort for >>> maintaining this offline use case (which will continue to be 0) but in >>> the >>> light of the statement above. In other words, if the question mark in the >>> subject is real or rhetorical. >>> I'm ready for both possible outcomes. >> >> Ah OK, sorry for misunderstanding it. >> >> I think there are the following options: >> >> 1) keeping it in Plasma with maintainer >> 2) keeping it outside of Plasma with maintainer >> 3) moving it to unmaintained (that's basically killing it) >> 4) keeping the status quo (not wanted) >> >> My personal preference would be an optional component (hence Extragear), >> since I think that the vast majority of users has web access, so >> khelpcenter isn't necessary and only adds to our maintainance burden >> without much gain in those cases. > > My offer stands and we can rule out 4) and 3). > Note that 2) could also mean a move to Applications (from your point of view > it does not matter too much). > The case 1) shouldn't add maintenance anyway as the maintainer is identified. > >> >> If we can move from 4) to 1) (so status quo but with maintainer), that would >> already be an improvement of course. >> >> The question mark was honest, we haven't made a decision on it, but >> different people do have expressed a preference for not shipping it (as or >> by default in Plasma releases). We may have missed important points, and we >> don't want to just kick things out unilaterally. > > I think we can leave some time for other people to comment. The shortest > deadline of all possibilities is the one for moving into Applications, and > there are still 8 days before the dependency freeze and two weeks before the > branch.
Any other comment from anyone else? Ciao -- Luigi _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
